Week 4: Hard Boiled

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"What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? . . . You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that." --Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep (1939)

Recommended Viewing:
The Library Detective, Mr. Bookman (Seinfeld) (Parody/Homage)

The Maltese Falcon (1941) Humphrey Bogart plays Sam Spade

• YouTube Clip
• Maltese Falcon Rugrats Style

Murder, My Sweet (1944) based on Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely featuring Philip Marlowe

• Murder My Sweet Opening

Double Indemnity (1946) Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck--oodles of Oscars

• Double Indemnity Trailer
• Double Indemnity Opening

The Big Sleep (1946) Bogart and Bacall

• YouTube Clip

Film Noir Studies
Hard Boiled Slang

Parody:
Whose Line Is It Anyway Film Noir (The Maltese Burger)